Post-Industrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth

by Kaoru Nabeshima and Shahid Yusuf

Book Overview

Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income economies. Growth is increasingly coming from the strength of innovative activities in these economies rather than from factor accumulation as in the past. Such innovative activities-especially in producer services and the creative industries-are concentrated in high-tech clusters in globally linked cities.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804756732
• ISBN13: 9780804756730
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"